From a
Green-Gym perspective, today was an entirely ivy-orientated day.
Ivy,
eradication of, that is.
Green-Gymmers
are known for attacking the plant with gusto as though it were
Poison Ivy.
And wow, was there a lot to remove!
Ironically,
for what was our last session at the site for the time being (our main
conservation task, of building a dead-hedge perimeter fence having been
accomplished) our starting point was in a corner of the site we had not seen
before.
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| Promptly dubbed
“the secret garden” |
Our main
concern in previous sessions having been with the line of boundary-fence, we
had paid little attention to the stretch of wall before. Ivy clearance was also a task we had
undertaken at the site, but on those occasions we had been cutting the stuff off
living trees. Now it was a man-made
structure which was to be liberated from invading hedera:
Our efforts
were directed to both sides of wall, for the plant really had been creeping all around: massing at the
borders of the site and threatening to invade the public right of way which
runs parallel. By session end, one could
therefore see in many places – most of them public – exactly where Green Gym had
been today:
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| As the team set to work |
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| Towards session end |
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| Before |
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| After |
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| Before |
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| Guess ... |
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| Before |
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| Could one be in any doubt as to who had been here? |
Our reward:
not just tea/coffee and cake, but (thank you, the Abbey community) tea/coffee, cake,
and mince pies! We especially liked the
pies in the shape of Festive Trees: a sort of cross between Xmas tree, mince
pie, and strudel …
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